Ok from when we joined CF we spoke about buying a 440, then i started various threads discussing mod's that would be desirable/sensible given that the 440 we bought is in CROATIA and our home country is Australia.

We have the Atlantic and the Pacific to deal with so our thinking is over the next 2 years we shall totally ready the boat.

So these are the projects for this winter, i shall update with photo's and drawings for those interested just ask.

4) Helm:- Remove inside Gear/Throttle setup and re-install on Portside aft of cockpit steps so i can single handed back up and secure lines.

5) Navigation:- Fit AIS 650, Lifetags x 4, Scanpod so i can fit E120 plotter vertically instead of the stupid horizontal spot where with poloroids you cannot read it etc etc.
Fit Raymarinecamera at first spreaders so we can see the reef passages when motoring into Lagoons etc.

6) Sails:- Get twin matched headsails in 6.5oz so we can set them tradewind-sailing/goosewing.
Fit FFR, a reaching sail from '1Sails'.

7) PC Nav:- Get a program running Navionics onto my MacBook Pro with GPS dongle so if Raymarine goes down we have back up using same charts.

7) PC Nav:- Get a program running Navionics onto my MacBook Pro with GPS dongle so if Raymarine goes down we have back up using same charts.
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i use I-Pad with charts for back up. with GPS and it works fine. Charts are cheaper also.
and i have INavX installed. and on the mac i have backup for the I-Pad.
i have charts from INavx , and Navionics, and
And the charts you by (Navionics) from INavx also have 2 years of updating included. you get mail when new updates are ready.
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it's almost funny how we are running slightly behind you. Fat Cat is currently on the hard, getting feathering props, having sea cocks replaced, antifouling applied. We did a custom bridle last summer. Heating and cooling is next, and then a good set of sails - and then we will be OFF!

we're in for 4 sails - replacing the two workhorses, then getting a storm jib and a gennaker. We have debated a spi of some kind, but we both feel that at this time we feel more comfortable with something we can simply furl. That may change over*time...

Where are you heading in spring? We will go East from Port Camargue for a few months -*then turn around in time to make it past Gibraltar in late fall...

we're in for 4 sails - replacing the two workhorses, then getting a storm jib and a gennaker. We have debated a spi of some kind, but we both feel that at this time we feel more comfortable with something we can simply furl. That may change over*time...

Where are you heading in spring? We will go East from Port Camargue for a few months -*then turn around in time to make it past Gibraltar in late fall...

Oliver

Yeh hence our twin headsail option, the furlers on the prodder are only for deploying and retrieving they are not furlers in the true sense, maybe should be called 'stowers' or roller upperers!!!

The twin headsail's in light cloth will lift the bows, they are 50% instantly reducible by tacking then become 2ply in a furling situation BUT i'd only use the like that for a short while.

Sail area's match the standard genny for each..

We will head off to Montenegro as soon as Spring pops it's head then Greece. Turkey will depend on what level of punch-up is going on other there.